Driver who killed cyclist thought he had hit a road sign

A Co-Op delivery driver who hit and killed a physiotherapist as she cycled to work thought he had clipped the curb or hit a road sign, a court heard today (weds). Philip Beadle, 48, did not realise he had hit Esther Hartsilver until he saw her lying fatally injured on the floor beside his lorry, Blackfriars Crown Court heard. Miss Hartsilver, 32, went under the wheels of Beadle’s 40ft HGV as he turned off Denmark Hill on May 28 last…